Of Plagues and Packs
The rest stop next to the forest was all but deserted. The gorgeous scenery of the verdant trees should've attracted a lot more tourists, but rumors of disappearances and strange sightings had scared most trainers away from the area.
The three boys sitting at one of the benches hadn't heard any of the rumors, and they were so happy to have run into each other that they probably wouldn't have cared. One older boy with black hair and brown eyes had been traveling to his next gym battle with his Pikachu. A younger boy with black hair and thick glasses had been investigating some odd readings on his portable computer. Another older boy with red hair and a green jacket had just been exploring the woods with his own Pikachu, Sparky.
Ash, Max, and Ritchie were thrilled to finally meet up and catch up with each other. It had felt like years since they had last spoken, and there was so much they wanted to tell each other. So many crazy adventures that they had to share, from seeing Moltres to battling the world champion to finally getting the license.
And then their next wild adventure came crashing through the woods to meet them.
The woman looked completely normal, with pale skin and brown hair covered in leaves and twigs. The outfit she was wearing looked like exercise clothes that had been torn in her rush to escape whatever was chasing her. She looked at the trio with wide eyes mixed with panic and relief.
"Oh thank goodness…" The woman collapsed just outside the forest barrier, and Ash and Ritchie immediately ran to her side to pick her up.
"Are you okay?"
"What happened?"
The lady sniffled and turned back to the woods with fear in her eyes. "Someone...someone bad is chasing me, and I need to...to call for help, but he won't stop long enough for me to…"
"Stop right there!" A furious male voice came bellowing from behind the treeline, coming closer with each step of what sounded like heavy boots. "You're not getting away from me!"
Ash and Ritchie looked at each other and nodded. "Max, can you keep an eye on her? We're going to stop this creep in his tracks."
"You got it. Come on, miss…" Max gently pulled the woman away, not noticing the smile suddenly appearing on her face...
The other two boys turned to face where the voice and footfalls were storming towards them at full speed. Pikachu and Sparky took positions in front of their respective trainers, waiting for the right moment to strike…
The pursuer finally came crashing through the brush. It was a burly-looking older man wearing what looked like a raincoat and galoshes, with a strange black helmet on top of his head. In his hands was a black object that almost looked like a flashlight -
No, a gun! And he was starting to raise it…
"THUNDER WAVE!" Both Ash and Ritchie cried out as one.
The man didn't have time to react as two bolts of lightning slammed into him at full charge. His raincoat looked as though it should've protected him from the electricity, but it didn't cover his head, giving the lightning bolts the opening they needed to course through his muscles and paralyze him.
"D-dammit…" the man collapsed onto the ground, face first.
"Good job, Pikachu!" Ash congratulated his friend with a pat on the head.
"You too, Sparky." Ritchie agreed before turning to the shocked man. The boy's foot kicked the gun away from his hands before Ritchie glared down at the pursuer. "Why were you chasing that lady? And why did you try to shoot us?"
"St-stupid kids...wasn't...trying...look behind you…" The man gasped out as one hand raised to point behind the two, trying to distract them from the other hand moving to his side...
Ash and Ritchie glanced at each other before they turned back to where they'd left Max with the woman. "Max, have you gotten her to call for hel-"
The two boys froze when they fully turned around. Max was lying on the ground, rubbing his head with a stunned look on his face. The woman they were trying to help was standing a few steps away, her back turned to them as she started waving her arms in circles with an unclear purpose.
"HEY!" Ash ran to Max's side to try and nurse the bump on his head. "What are you doing?!"
The lady turned around and smirked. "Calling for help. My kind of help."
Suddenly, purple energy began erupting from her fingers, energy that swirled in a massive spiral in front of the strange woman. The spiral grew larger and larger and seemed to open up as the woman continued gesturing at the portal as if feeding it with her body's energy.
"And oh my, this planet needs a lot of our help." she sneered, turning around to add the final touches to the magic portal… There was a rumbling as if an earthquake was starting to build up, and Ash worried that she was trying to summon some kind of demon...
"NO!" The three confused boys turned around to the sound of the man they had paralyzed. The chaser had recovered enough to point his other weapon at the woman, and before anyone could react, he fired a shot of what looked like blue lightning at the woman's back, hitting her square on.
The portal woman shook, and her expression changed from one of triumph to one of panic. The swirling portal suddenly changed color, and a massive gust of wind began sucking everyone into the massive swirl of energy. The woman was the first to vanish into the portal, screaming in an angry panic the entire way. Ritchie lost his balance and fell into the dimensional gate, only managing to keep Sparky in his grip as he disappeared.
"RITCHIE!" Ash screamed as he tried to hold onto Max, Pikachu, and a nearby bench as an anchor. But his fingers slipped, and all three of them were blown into the swirling void of energy, screaming the entire way as they felt a wind tunnel tear at everything around them…
The portal flickered for a second longer, and then disappeared, leaving no trace of what had happened to the three boys who'd stopped to catch up, except for a single red and black cap in the middle of the rest area and a buzzing in the air that wasn't electricity...
At the feeling of Pikachu nuzzling his face, Ash wearily blinked himself awake. What happened? He tried to pick himself up, and felt grass on his skin...
Far more of his skin than there should've been.
"GAH!" Ash shot awake on realizing that he was lying on the grass in his birthday suit. The wind tunnel of that portal must have ripped every bit of clothing off him, exposing his entire body to everyone nearby.
Everyone nearby…
Ash hurriedly covered his most private area with his hands as he took in his surroundings. It almost looked like the place he had been at a few minutes ago, but the entire rest area was gone, along with any sign of human civilization. Just a clearing right next to a forest of trees that looked...off in a way Ash couldn't describe. The leaves seemed to be an entirely different shade and shape than anything the trainer had ever seen before, and he'd seen a lot. The forest was even thicker than the one from the rest area, and Ash couldn't see what was making a soft rustling noise in the trees...
Pikachu breathed a sigh of relief on seeing his trainer awake, not being particularly affected by his nudity. Pokemon never wore anything anyway, so it hardly registered to the mouse. But Ash blushed furiously and tried to curl into himself to hide away.
"Wh-what the heck happened? Where's...where's Max and Ritchie?!" Ash asked, extremely concerned.
Ritchie's voice came from just behind him. "I'm over here, but - "
Ash spun around - and immediately spun back around on seeing that Ritchie was just as naked as he was, and doing just as much to hide his modesty. The two boys were red as beets as their mutual situation sunk in.
"...Aheheh...Um, M-max and Sparky went to the forest to get some leaves and stuff for...you know…"
"...yeah...th-that would be good…"
"Not gonna matter in a bit." A gruff voice interrupted their awkward conversation.
Ash turned to see the man they had paralyzed was...fully clothed in what looked like a hazmat suit. The stranger was typing in some kind of hi-tech notepad, and even underneath the suit's mask, Ash could tell he was frowning.
"What are you talking about - What is going on?!" Ash desperately demanded.
"What's going on is that your world just dodged a bullet, thanks to you trying to help that terrorist."
Ash swallowed as he tried to glare at the uncaring stranger. "Terrorist? What are you talking about? Why were you chasing her?!"
"I work for...well, you can call it a space-time police force." As if to prove it, the man tapped his screen, and a hologram presented what looked like a police badge. "That woman is responsible for infecting this world with a class-T plague, and I've been chasing her to make sure it doesn't happen to any more planets. If that portal had been completed her way, your world would've been infected as well."
Ash froze in horror. "Oh man…"
Ritchie swallowed. "I-is there anything we can do to help-"
"No, you managed to help her get away, and…" the officer sighed. "You know what? It's not worth getting angry at you over. You'll be paying enough for that mistake soon enough anyway. Least it's just you and not your entire world."
"Wh-what? What's gonna happ-"
"AAAHH!" Max's voice cried out from the woods. Ash and Ritchie turned around to where the sound came from, just in time to see a bolt of lightning zap from the woods and hear Sparky cry out in surprise and pain.
"Max? Sparky? What happened?!" Ritchie yelled out in fear.
He got his answer when a stark naked Max ran out of the woods, trying to dislodge a Pichu that had bitten onto his arm. Sparky was following close by, and no-one noticed how his expression was shifting.
"Th-this bit me and Sparky!" Max cried out, trying to pull the Pichu from his arm.
"That'll do it." The officer sighed. "They're both infected, now."
"What are you…? Sparky, help him!"
But Sparky didn't move. He just stared hard at his master, ignoring the boy in distress right next to him. Was this part of the infection? What the heck was this plague?!
Ash shook himself awake and tried to help his younger friend. "Pikachu, use Quick Attack!"
"Pika!" Pikachu sprung into action, charging towards the tiny creature hurting one of his friends, knocking him off Max's arm with one hit. The two Pokémon tumbled onto the grass as Max nursed his wounded arm.
Ritchie then noticed that Sparky was running towards him with a rather dark expression. "Sparky, what are you - GAH!"
Sparky had reached his master and sank his teeth into one of his exposed legs. The shocked boy tried to wrestle his Pokémon off his leg, confused as to why his friend would suddenly do such a thing.
Ash forgot his shame for a second and ran over to Ritchie, grabbing Sparky by the sides and pulled him off his friend's leg. "What are you doing?!" He demanded, holding Sparky in a way that prevented the Pikachu from biting him as well.
"It ain't them anymore." The officer sighed, reloading his gun. "It's the plague."
"Wha-what?! Sparky's infect- what, what do you mean 'them'-?"
Ash got his answer when his own Pikachu was suddenly beside him, biting into his arm with an icy expression of cold determination. Ash felt...something enter his body with that bite, something that made his blood feel like it was flowing backwards...
"AAH! St-stop it, buddy! What are you doing-"
The officer fired his gun into the air with a loud BANG, and all three of the electric rodents turned and ran back into the forest, leaving the four humans alone.
"W-wait, come back…" Max gasped as he fell to his knees, wheezing. "Come back...help us…"
Ash could feel something in his muscles bubble and hiss, the plague starting it's work. He desperately turned back to the officer, tears in his eyes. "H-help us! You gotta do something! Please!"
But the officer just shook his head sadly. "There's nothing to be done for any of you. Don't fight it...it'll be better for you."
And with a press of a button and a flash of blue light, the officer was gone, leaving the three naked and infected boys to their fate.
Max looked at his two friends in dawning horror before he scrambled to his feet and began running in the direction that Pikachu and Sparky had run.
"Help…Someone help us..." he squeaked desperately before falling onto his face as if his legs had somehow shrunk mid-step. Ash and Ritchie saw that his exposed skin was turning a pale yellow color, just before Max ran on all fours into the woods…
"Max! Come back!" Ash cried out, terrified for his friend's safety…
He's more than a friend, isn't he?
Ash froze as he heard...no, thought a strange voice in his mind...A voice that seemed to echo through his entire body and soul…
"A-A-Ash…?" Ritchie's scared voice caused Ash to look back at his friend. His eyes widened as he saw the same strange yellow color overtake Ritchie's entire body...The redhead's eyes were wide with terror and fear as he looked at his friend…
All concerns about his shame vanishing, Ash stumbled over and embraced Ritchie in what he tried to make a comforting hug. When his arms wrapped around Ritchie's bare back, Ash could see the yellowness creeping up his own arms...he could feel it crawling up his skin…
"It'll be okay, it'll be okay…" Ash tried to assure Ritchie, despite not believing it himself. "D-don't think about it, think about...think about…"
There is nothing to think about. Just...feel.
Ash's heartbeat quickened when he felt Ritchie embrace him back, his chest pressing against his own. Ritchie breathed heavily over Ash's shoulder, and the two boys stayed in place for what felt like a small eternity…
You three...you are all together...you care deeply about one another...so very deeply…
"W-We're friends...best friends…" Ash answered the voice, even if he knew it wasn't actually there…
No...you're more. So much more…
"Wh-what are you…"
"A-Ash, l-look! My f-foot…" Ritchie stammered, tightening his arms even as his chest twisted to point at his bare feet…
The two boys stared in baffled fear at what was happening. Ritchie's toes were fusing together, and bright yellow fur was overtaking his shrinking foot. This was...this was wrong, it…
It's becoming right again. Normal…
"Th-this isn't right…" Ash stammered, realizing that he could feel his own feet getting warmer and smaller...his breath got more and more frightened as he realized this was the plaque at work...was this happening to Max, too…
The little boy...he has your hair, doesn't he? Your hair and your eyes…
Ash wouldn't say he had his eyes, but...but...his mind was getting foggier and foggier…Max did kind of have his hair...and eyes…
You three came together...a family...two fathers and a son…
Ash shook his head, trying to dislodge the bizarre thoughts in his head. Max and Ritchie weren't his family! He knew his family, he knew Max's family, and Ritchie and he weren't…
A gasp escaped Ash's mouth when he felt Ritchies hand slide down towards his rear...the touch felt like it was sending electricity through his entire body...but had he ever...felt that way…
Yes...you love him, you feel it, don't you? There is no-one else but you three...together…
Ash flushed, trying to steady his breathing as he felt Ritchie's embrace become...warmer, his hands moving across his bare flesh like...wait, Ash's hands were moving too...cradling the other boy, bringing him closer and closer...something was filling Ash that he couldn't explain…
A gasp escaped the boy as his arousal brushed against that of his friend...they were both erect, filled with a need and desire that they had never felt before in their lives...but there was something different about...them...everything was...changing...
No more thoughts, Ash. Just feel. Feel your mate's love...let it overtake you…
"R-Ritchie…" Ash swallowed, using one of his hands to gently turn Ritchie's face towards him…"A-are we…? Do you…?"
Ritchie gazed at Ash with eyes that were getting brighter yet darker, cheeks that flushed red with want and electricity...the boy's mouth hung open for a second before…
The redhead pushed himself forward, pressing his lips against Ash's before the boy could even react properly. Ash froze for a second before sinking into the kiss, his tongue dancing with his friend's...his mate's…
Don't deny it anymore...you want him...you want to be inside him...your son deserves a brother…
There were no more questions in Ash's mind as Ash grabbed Ritchie's legs and spread them apart...his desire was irresistible now...there was nothing but him and Ritchie in the field, and it was time for his family to grow...
Max ran and ran through the woods, desperately trying to get help for the two boys behind him in the clearing...his two... his…
Daddies…
Max tried to shake his head, dizzy and disoriented, feeling as though he was falling down even though he was still running…
Ash and Ritchie...your daddies need help...you're a good little one, you want to help them…
He was little...it seemed like he was very close to the ground now...running was getting harder and harder on his little legs and arms...He was so little…
A little baby Pichu...lost in the woods…
Max sat down and started sniffling. Tears welled from his brown eyes as his big ears drooped down and out...the forest surrounding him seemed to grow bigger and bigger around him, making him feel so much tinier and more helpless…
The sound of crying attracted the attention of two Pikachus, one with scruffy fur on his head and one without, who followed the noise to a sobbing Pichu with thick black hair sobbing his eyes out. Feeing sympathetic, the two Pikachus crept closer and placed their paws on the little Pokemon's back.
"There, there...it's ok, little guy…" The one with a tuft in his fur soothed, patting the Pichu's furry back.
"I'm Kachu, this is Sparky. We can help you out…" The other Pikachu smiled and wiped the tears away from the stray Pichu's eyes. "...Can you tell us your name?"
"...I'm Muh-Max. I...I can't find my daddies, I th-think they're in trouble…"
Kachu's ears almost twitched when he heard the Pichu's name, but they didn't. But he still felt a deep need to help this Pichu. "Oh my...can you tell me about your daddies?"
Max blubbered. "M-my daddy Ash has black hair like me, and d-daddy Ritchie has red hair, and I last s-saw them outside the woods, and s-something's wrong, and…"
"Sh-sh-sh…" Sparky soothed. "They must still be at the clearing. I know the way there...just relax. We'll bring you to your daddies...they must be so worried about you…"
Max was small enough for Kachu to put him on his back and easily carry him through the woods. It was a short walk to the clearing, Max's tiny feet hadn't carried him all that far.
Kachu's eyes widened when he arrived at the clearing and saw what must've been Max's daddies. But they couldn't be...could they?
They didn't look like Pikachus...well, sort of. They had the long pointy ears, yellow fur on their bodies and red cheeks, with brown stripes on their backs. But their tails weren't there just yet, and they were just a little too tall and with arms and legs a little too long as they…
Sparky swiftly covered Pichu's eyes when he realized just what his 'daddies' were actually doing. "Um...don't worry, Max, your daddies are going to be fine…"
The redheaded one was splayed on the ground, his legs spread out and his back arched as his mate thrust into him with all the force he could muster. The one with black hair pushed himself in and out, gasping with ecstatic exertion as he pounded the ass of his fellow daddy, both of them dripping with sweat. Ash was holding onto Ritchie's legs and pulling them apart with what looked like yellow Infernape paws, and while it was a little too bare for Kachu's liking, he couldn't help but stare at the brunette's rather well-defined ass...
"What's going on? Are they hurt?" Max demanded to know.
"Shhhhhhh…" Kachu shushed. The two looked...familiar, even as their bodies began to shift.
Their legs began to shrink and swell even as they continued fucking, as did their arms. Ash's butt lost it's definition, though it still looked quite cute to Kachu. It looked even cuter when the lightning-bolt tail finally emerged just above it, pushing out as Ash started pushing into his mate faster and faster…
That's it. Kachu decided. These cuties and their son are joining our pack.
Ash leaned back and howled to the sky, filling his mate with his seed as he orgasmed into Ritchie's fertile ass. The redhead screamed in ecstacy as well, his own seed spurting into the sky and splattering onto the grass.
The now fully-transformed Pikachus slowly separated from each other. Exhausted and happy, Ash turned to Ritchie with a hopeful expression. "Do you...do you feel it?"
Ritchie happily patted his expanded stomach with his paws. Kachu and Sparky could already see the glow of pregnancy on his face. "Oh yeah. We're gonna be proud parents again…"
Kachu chuckled and nodded to Sparky to release Max. The Pichu saw his fathers and immediately ran towards them. "Daddy Ash! Daddy Ritchie!"
"Maxie!" Ash cried in happiness as he picked up his firstborn son in a big hug. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Max sniffled. "I...I thought you were being hurt...I got scared…"
Ash's eyes widened. "What? No, no, no...we weren't getting hurt. Relax…"
A spark of electricity emitted from Ash's cheeks and buzzed into Max's body. The power of the charge made Max slowly stop crying, his eyes becoming slightly dull with calm and relaxation. A father's charge would always gently overpower his son's, and Max fell into a mild trance that put him at complete ease.
"Us Daddies thought that you could use a little brother or sister. And now you're going to have one. Isn't that right, Ritchie?"
"That's right." Ritchie got up and confirmed the good news with his own little shock of electricity. "You're going to be a big brother very soon."
The two Pikachu's ceased their charge, and Max woke up happier than ever. "YAAAAAY! I'm gonna be a big brother! I can't wait!"
The family all smiled, and Kachu and Sparky couldn't help but smile too. Now that things had settled down somewhat, the two normal-born Pikachus stepped out of the forest towards the three 'transfers'.
"You must be Max's fathers." Sparky introduced themselves. "I'm Sparky, and this is Kachu."
Ash and Ritchie smiled back at them, though they squinted their eyes in confusion. "It's nice to meet you...um, have we met before? You seem really familiar…"
Kachu smirked, and he and Sparky sent out their own electric arc at the three. Their looks of confusion were swiftly replaced with glazed-over eyes and broad, mindless smiles. Normal-borns had much more power over transfers.
"Of course you recognize us. You're part of our pack. We are your alphas." Kachu explained, and the three nodded in utter agreement. Kachu smiled and turned to Sparky. "You can take Max and Ritchie to our new den. I want some...private time with Ash."
Sparky smirked and released his electric power over Ritchie and Max. The two blinked themselves awake, and then smiled at their Alpha. "Hi, Sparky!" Max waved. "Daddy Ritchie is pregnant again, what do you wanna name him?"
Sparky chuckled. "We'll figure that out back at the den. You and Daddy Ritchie can come with me. I wanna show you your new home."
"What about Daddy Ash?" Max asked even as Ash gently released him from his hug.
"Kachu wants to talk with Ash. Grown-up stuff, we'll tell you all about it when you're old enough. Now c'mon, Max." Ritchie took his son by the paw and they hopped back into the woods, leaving Ash alone with Kachu.
Ash blushed as he felt his alpha looking him over. "Umm...so, what would you like...alpha?"
Kachu chuckled. "First off, don't call me alpha. I'm your best friend who happens to like dominating you quite a bit."
"Ok, buddy." Ash smiled.
"Second, I want you to bend over and show me that Ass of yours."
Ash didn't hesitate, falling onto his hands and raising his tail so Kachu could get a good look at what he had to offer. A perfect Pikachu ass, with plenty of promise for children…
SMACK!
The submissive flinched when he felt Kachu's paw sharply hit his rear.
"You like that, don't you?" Kachu asked.
"Er…"
A lightning current zapped his doubts away from Ash's mind.
"You love that." Kachu commanded.
"Yes...buddy…" Ash smiled broadly. "I love it when you do that…"
"Oh, yes you do." Kachu laughed as he gave his new pet another hard smack on the ass. Ash squealed with delight this time. "I'll let you mate with Ritchie whenever he's not carrying Sparky's children. But your ass belongs to me. All the children you will carry will be mine. Do you understand?"
"Oh, yessss…" Ash sighed in pure happiness, even after the lighting stopped sparking.
Kachu placed himself behind the kneeling Ash, his paws grabbing his sides. "We're not going home until I have a child of my own on the way. I trust you know what to do, Ash?"
Ash nodded enthusiastically. He did know, the same way he knew how to impregnate Ritchie himself. It was instinct now, nothing else on his mind.
The dominant Pikachu smiled and pushed himself into the waiting hole, making Ash cry out in ecstasy. Kachu started thrusting harder and harder, even sparking a little to enhance his mate's experience. The alpha still felt a deep desire to make his plaything happy as possible, even though they had only just met that day…
And Ash was going to have a very happy life in the forest with his pack.